Space Station Payload Operations Center marks one year as 'fourth crewmember' of orbiting outpost.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 March 2002-NASA: Space Station Payload Operations Center marks one year as 'fourth crewmember' of orbiting outpost (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07032002 It's not attached to the International Space Station laboratory or a Russian module or any of the connecting pieces, but NASA's Payload Operations Center has been one of the Station's most important components.

On March 19, the Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will mark the one-year anniversary of round-the-clock operations in support of science aboard the world's only orbiting research station. Staffed around the clock by three shifts of six to 19 flight controllers, this science command and control center links Earth-bound...